A Kenner fortuneteller was arrested Thursday on theft charges for the third time in nine months after four more people reported she convinced them they were cursed then charged them thousands of dollars to lift the hexes.

Lecia Urich, 39, works under the name of Sister Jackson in a fortunetelling shop at 3120 Williams Blvd. Capt. Steve Caraway, a Kenner police spokesman, said she told four customers that people had put curses on them and offered to erase the curses for a total of $7,100, which she said she would bury at a church or cemetery.

"There was no money being buried anywhere, " Caraway said.

The customers, two men and two women from East Jefferson, approached police after hearing about Urich's arrests last year in Slidell and Kenner.

"Some of them didn't realize they were the victim of some sort of fraud, " Caraway said.

In one of the new cases, in January 2004, Urich told a man that he would lose his job, wife and family if he didn't give her his savings of $3,500, police said. And she allegedly convinced a man in April 2004 that several people had put curses on him and that the hexes could be lifted by giving her $600 to bury in a cemetery.

In April 2002, police said, Urich told a woman that a curse on her could be lifted only if she came up with $1,000 to be buried at a church. And in April 2001, Urich allegedly told a woman that her boyfriend had put a curse on her and would have her killed if she didn't bring in $2,500. The woman handed over $2,000.

Urich was jailed Thursday morning.

In the previous cases, she was booked in July 2004 with trying to scam a Slidell businesswoman out of $5,000 and with stealing $37,000 from a Kenner woman and $700 from a West Jefferson woman. Caraway did not know the dispositions on those cases.